Re: reiser?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Ok, this is getting odd then:
> 
> vampire:/var/lib/dpkg 
> root:{1}: grep -i reiser available
[...]
> No other mention of reiser in the available packages.  When I do the
> apt-get install reiserfsprogs though it does install clean.  Why isn't
> the package named in the available list?

Because 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file: they
operate at different levels. Use 'dselect update' instead, which, if
configured to use the apt access method (as it is by default these days)
will run 'apt-get update' and then merge the results into
/var/lib/dpkg/available.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]